A developer has returned yet again with plans for homes at the site where a Hornchurch snooker hall was forced to close after 90 years of business.
An application of prior notification has been submitted by Parkhall Estates to Havering Council regarding Knights Snooker and Pool Club in High Street.
Its application bids to change the use of the 1930s snooker hall to five new homes.
The club announced online it would be closing at the end of July 2022 after claiming it “lost the battle against our landlord”.
Parkhall Estates has had two previous applications relating to the High Street site turned down.
One aimed to transform the disused ground floor of the property into five new homes.
According to documents from the failed application, the council ruled that "the proposal would fail to provide adequate level of light".
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Parkhall Estates' initial application included "external alterations of existing ground and first floor levels".
These alterations included plans for new doors, windows, pillars, railings and an extension at the site, which the council claimed were "not classified as permitted development".
Another application for an additional storey above the snooker club to create four flats and a green roof was refused in September this year.
In its reasoning, the council said planned alterations to the building's facade would detract from its character and appearance.
They added: "The proposed flats would fail to provide acceptable standard of accommodation, due to poor level of access with noise and disturbance from the shared access door and stairs with the users of the first floor commercial premises.
"(This) would adversely impact on the living condition of the existing and future occupiers of the premises."
Evren Omer, who had been at its helm for 35 years, said at the time of the snooker club's closure in 2022: “We don’t want to leave. None of our customers want us to leave, and there’s been an outpouring of sympathy on Facebook among other places.”
A decision is set to be made by January 10 2025 by the council about Parkhall Estates' latest application.
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